Masayuki Tani

Masayuki Tani (2 September 1889-16 October 1962) was Foreign Minister of Japan from 17 September 1942 to 21 April 1943, succeeding Shigenori Togo and preceding Mamoru Shigemitsu.

Biography
Masayuki Tani was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan on 2 September 1889, and he was a career diplomat before assuming ministerial roles. He served as ambassador to France from 1918 to 1923, ambassador to the United States from 1927 to 1930, and to Manchukuo from 1933 to 1936. In 1939, Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai made him Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs under Kichisaburo Nomura, and he served as Foreign Minister from September 1942 to April 1943. The foreign ministry's bureaucracy resented Tani, who failed in his attempts to encourage a separate peace between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II, and replaced him with the anti-militarist Mamoru Shigemitsu. From 1956 to 1957, he served as ambassador to the USA, and he died in 1962 at the age of 73.